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no doubt, I totally agree with that. I think that there's better backloading foods, but at the end of the day, you have to find foods that you respond best to.

For clean carbs, I seem to respond well to instant white rice. For dirty carbs, ice cream has been working quite nicely. I have also found frozen french fries to work decently, but I have yet to try potatoes in their unadulterated form

~3400 calories, 350g carbs (mostly instant white rice and ice cream)
I stopped drinking water voraciously by 9pm, which helped me sleep (read: didn't wake up to pee) and gave me a more accurate representation of myself in the mirror. Also had a BM yesterday so that probably attributed to change in weight.

~3400 calories, 350g carbs (mostly instant white rice and ice cream)
I stopped drinking water voraciously by 9pm, which helped me sleep (read: didn't wake up to pee) and gave me a more accurate representation of myself in the mirror. Also had a BM yesterday so that probably attributed to change in weight.

Are you doing the recommended shakes? Accelerator, hypertrophic potentiator, pre training? Are you using BCAA's? How are you using them? After doing the restoraid log I gotta say that product should work well with cbl.

Are you doing the recommended shakes? Accelerator, hypertrophic potentiator, pre training? Are you using BCAA's? How are you using them? After doing the restoraid log I gotta say that product should work well with cbl.

4/6 weigh in: 170.6!! Wtf, despite increasing carbs and cal, my weigh dropped significantly and I woke up looking quite lean. Go figure. Time to up the cals to 3750 on lifting days and see what happens! Rest days will stay conservative still at about 2500cals